Category: Ben Franklin

Animal quotes Ben Franklin Deborah Read Franklin Francis Gentleman (aka Sir Humphrey Lunatic) Historical quotes Mungo the squirrel Poetry Proverbial Sayings September 26 Skugg snug as a bug in a rug The Stratford Jubilee

The backstory on “Snug as a bug in a rug.” (Spoiler Alert: Ben Franklin didn’t actually coin it.)

9 years ago
Robert Deis

In 1771, Ben Franklin’s common-law wife, Deborah Read Franklin shipped a live gift to young Georgiana Shipley, the daughter of British friends in London. It was an American gray squirrel…

Ben Franklin Benjamin Franklin Daniel Defoe Death Historical quotes Jean-Baptiste Leroy Life and Death Nothing is certain but death and taxes Nothing is certain except death and taxes November 13 Proverbial Sayings Taxes

“Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”

14 years ago
Robert Deis

One of the most famous quotations by Benjamin Franklin is: “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” (Commonly heard as “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”) The source of…